Fantôme de l'Opéra

#PhantomoftheOpera #GastonLeroux #ThePhantomoftheOpera #LeFantômedelOpéra #ParisOperaHouse #PalaisGarnier #CharlesGarnier #OperaGhost

While not error-free, Robert Sellers's WHEN THE BRITISH #MUSICAL RULED THE WORLD includes an enjoyable behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the #BrilliantOriginal London production of @PhantomOpera, with interviews with various cast and crew members: horturl.at/fhSV2

The legendary @CarlDavisMusic, who composed an unsurpassed soundtrack to the 1925 #PhantomoftheOpera as well as a recent new ballet adaptation of #GastonLeroux’s novel, has sadly passed away. #RIP #CarlDavis

After seeing @JeremySecomb earlier this week, delighted to be seeing another @Original_POTO alumnus tonight: @johnowenjones!

Though no longer in London's #WestEnd or on #Broadway, #HaroldPrince's #brilliantoriginal production of @OfficialALW's @PhantomOpera may now be seen in #Seoul, which the show has already played twice previously: shorturl.at/aoV45 #PhantomoftheOpera #TheBrilliantOriginal

On the fourth anniversary of his death, remembering the legendary #HalPrince who directed the original (and unsurpassed) productions of @PhantomOpera.

Press on the new Italian production of @PhantomOpera in #Trieste, which will also play #Milan, #MonteCarlo, & #Madrid / Articoli sul nuovo allestimento del #FantasmadellOpera di @OfficialALW in #Italia: tinyurl.com/3nfr65rj & tinyurl.com/2haww8pp & tinyurl.com/ybzaxjpt

For the first time, @OfficialALW's @PhantomOpera will be performed in an opera house actually designed by #CharlesGarnier — but not the #PalaisGarnier. The Opéra de Monte Carlo will host a transfer of the new Italian production in December: shorturl.at/duP79 #MonteCarlo

Five years ago today I lost my wonderful wife of 40 years and the world lost a creative genius who lived inside the kindest most effective communicator that ever strode the earth. Dame Gillian Lynne DBE loved Dance & it loved her - love to you Gillie.pl

The death of #JulianSands, who starred in the title role in Dario Argento’s 1998 PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, has been confirmed. Sands went missing in January. encr.pw/h11mQ #RIP

Greetings from #Bucharest, whose Roman Atheneum, a renowned concert venue, has a dome that is uncannily familiar… #PalaisGarnier

@TheoristScouter As stated previously, the story is nonsense.

@fantomedelopera hey this merchandise description on the official page is really weird, it's talking about an Ernest the Pianist, what are your thoughts on it? I heard a friend from discord say that the tour guides there like to bring up Ernest too. boutique.operadeparis.fr/en/product/265…

À quoi aurait ressemblé l'Opéra de Paris si Charles Garnier n'avait pas été l'heureux élu du concours d'architecte organisé en 1861 pour la construction d'une nouvelle salle de spectacle ? Revue de détail ici...

In a piece on the end of @OfficialALW's 40+-year #Broadway stint, @WhatsOnStage opines that the "inevitable revival" of @PhantomOpera in #NYC is unlikely to "match the grandeur of Hal Prince’s original staging", particularly given its downsizing in London: shorturl.at/agntT

Greetings from the actual castle at #Otranto, Italy. #HoraceWalpole’s THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO is widely considered to be the first #Gothic novel, featuring many tropes that find their way into #GastonLeroux’s LE FANTÔME DE L’OPÉRA. #TheCastleofOtranto #IlCastellodiOtranto

A phantomesque find in #Matera, Italy: this underground water cistern was reminiscent of another…

@vivreparis Svp répétez après nous : Ernest n’a jamais existé, Ernest n’a jamais existé…

Palais Garnier : la naissance d’un monument mythique 👉 buff.ly/314WCrr

@TheoristScouter @DianneR_99 We do not believe he existed. To our knowledge, there are no reports of any disfigured pianists at the time whose injuries were a consequence of the Le Peletier fire.

@fantomedelopera @DianneR_99 I'm aware of that, I've also heard that Ernest is a psudoname he went under because he wanted people to truly believe he had died in the fire or something. Though that could just be something that made the story more believable without records.

@fantomedelopera (...) even in the Biblithèque Nationale de France and came to some rather strange "conclusions", especially with Erik, which personally seem to me nonsense. What do you think?

@TheoristScouter @laBnF Early reviews in France were positive. More info @ academic.oup.com/fsb/article-ab…

@fantomedelopera @laBnF Thank you for this knowledge! How about reviews of the book? Early reviews?

@fantomedelopera Hii just for a research thing, are there any records of fan mail that Gaston Leroux recieved? pleeeease :3

On the difficulties of translating @PhantomOpera into Mandarin: bit.ly/3o7VwfZ @OfficialALW's adaptation of #GastonLeroux's novel runs, in a pared-down version not as opulent as the show's 2004 incarnation in Shanghai, throughout the summer across cities in China.